Table 2

Diagnostic efficiency of the NNET model in diagnosing TB in the discovery cohort

ParameterTraining setTest set
AUC0.91 (0.89 to 0.94)0.90 (0.86 to 0.94)
Accuracy0.85 (0.82 to 0.88)0.84 (0.79 to 0.89)
Sensitivity0.83 (0.77 to 0.87)0.70 (0.58 to 0.79)
Specificity0.86 (0.83 to 0.89)0.92 (0.86 to 0.96)
PPV0.77 (0.71 to 0.82)0.83 (0.72 to 0.91)
NPV0.90 (0.87 to 0.93)0.84 (0.78 to 0.90)
PLR5.97 (4.68 to 7.62)8.92 (4.97 to 16.03)
NLR0.20 (0.15 to 0.27)0.33 (0.24 to 0.46)
  • Data in parentheses represent 95% CI.

  • AUC, area under the ROC curve; NLR, negative likelihood ratio; NNET, neural network; NPV, negative predictive value; PLR, positive likelihood ratio; PPV, positive predictive value; TB, tuberculosis.